Walsner House, 42 North Central Avenue, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
The city’s West Side is well known for the disinvestment that it has endured for the past sixty years. But the area holds an abundance of the city's best architecture. During this talk, Lee Bey will discuss the critical need to document and preserve these places.
In 2019, Lee Bey published Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side, the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. Inspired by Bey’s 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition, Southern Exposure visits sixty sites, including lesser-known but important work by luminaries such as Jeanne Gang, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Eero Saarinen, as well as buildings by pioneering Black architects such as Walter T. Bailey, John Moutoussamy, and Roger Margerum.
Greater St. John COGIC, 5701 West Midway Park, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 West Douglas Boulevard, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
Hotel Guyon, 4000 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
Mabel Manning Library, 6 South Hoyne Avenue, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
Waller Apartments, 2846 West Walnut Street, Chicago. © Lee Bey.
